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  17 April 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Religious close to the people of God in many ways during the pandemic, expression of a "Church that goes forth" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "Creativity in spiritual accompaniment by men and women religious, priests, deacons, pastoral workers, with many expressions, with different means, has penetrated very deeply into the communi ...
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  17 April 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - An interreligious team to offer psychological advice during the "lockdown" imposed for coronavirus Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious group in central India offers free advice to people affected by the coronavirus or who are in need due to the lockdown underway due to Covid-19. As Father Anand Muttungal report ...
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  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Political framework blocked due to Covid-19: further positive effects of the peace agreement Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - It took ten years to sign an agreement and, after the one signed between the United States, the Taliban and the Afghan government, hopes had grown. But now the Covid-19 emergency blocks the situat ...
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  17 April 2020
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Coronavirus: the President of Tanzania proclaims three days of national prayer Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Tanzania John Pombe Magufuli has called for a three-day national prayer to ask for "the intercession of the Most High against the new coronavirus". "Tanzanian compatriots, ...
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  16 April 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Covid-19: the voice of mission among collapsing healthcare facilities, corruption and war scenarios Durán (Agenzia Fides) - "The churches of Guayaquil have been closed since Saturday 14 March and the streets are deserted. Only the basic necessities are open in the morning". Fr. Saverio Turato, a fidei donum priest in ...
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  16 April 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Solidarity among parishes in the face of Covid-19 Pesqueira (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Solidarity Action, initiative of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) and of Cáritas Brasileira launched on Easter Sunday (see Fides, 11/4/2020), has already prom ...
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  16 April 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Caritas' commitment to respond to the Covid-19 emergency Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kazakhstan, the state of emergency for Covid-19 has been extended until May 1st. The situation does not seem very tragic in terms of number of infections but, on a subjective level, daily lif ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The coronavirus emergency exacerbates the economic crisis Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The lockdown has been imposed in Zimbabwe until April 19. Only health workers can go to work. All gatherings are prohibited. Religious ceremonies and funerals with more than fifty people are also ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Library in Alexandria offers online lessons on St. Corona, to be invoked during pandemics Alexandria (Agenzia Fides) - In times of the coronavirus pandemic, the Coptic Studies Center of the Library of Alexandria of Egypt announced the continuation of its activities during the month of April through an online ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Cardinal Kutuwa urges a conversion of hearts and minds: "Yes, this pandemic will surely pass, but what will it have taught us?" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic, like death, will never have the last word on the history of men because Christ is, and will always be, victorious over death, from any form of death", said Cardinal Jean Pierre Ku ...
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  16 April 2020
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops in the United States and Mexico: in times of pandemic "stop deportations in the name of the suffering people" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - One month after the beginning of the restrictions imposed to contain the Covid 19 pandemic, the Bishops of Guatemala note that some of the compatriots do not seem to have become fully awa ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - A mission attacked in the province of Capo Delgado Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Jihadist terrorist groups operating in the northern province of Cabo Delgado murdered 5 people in the Quirimbas archipelago on Good Friday, April 10, according to the newspaper "Carta de Mocambiq ...
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  16 April 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Covid-19: Catholics distribute food and face masks to the poorest Karachi (Agenzia Fides): "In these days we all live a limited life, we are in domestic confinement. We have enough food, but there are many people in the neighborhood, in our own neighborhoods who are not in the same sit ...
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  15 April 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The church denounces the violence of groups and asks for a truce Quibdò (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Juan Carlos Barreto, bishop of the diocese of Quibdó, denounced the increase in conflicts in the Colombian Pacific area. The situation, according to the Bishops of this Colombian region ...
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  15 April 2020
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The PMS for the Covid 19 emergency fund: "the missionaries are already ringing the alarm bell" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain adhere to the request of the Holy Father to create an international emergency fund to help mission territories affected by this pandemic (see Fides ...